Freedom on the Move Crowdsources “Runaway Ads” for Database ...

Database Crowdsource Educators ... With the advent of newspapers in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives.

Freedom on the Move

Created to control the movement of enslaved people, runaway ads ultimately preserved the details of individual lives--their personality, appearance, and life ...

Freedom on the Move Crowdsources “Runaway Ads” for Database on Fugitives from Slavery ... A team of historians, researchers, and developers have ...

Freedom on the Move: Rediscovering the Stories of Self-Liberating ...

Crowdsourcing project that provides ... With the advent of newspapers in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives.

Freedom on the Move - World History Commons

... Freedom on the Move is a crowdsourced ... “Freedom on the Move is a crowdsourced, multi-institutional effort to create and maintain a database of 'runaway ads'.

Freedom on the Move and the Databasing of Fugitive Slave ...

... database) the ... Both of these phenomena could be measured and mapped by coding and aggregating the kinds of data found in runaway ads.

Freedom on the Move - Bunk History

With the advent of newspapers in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives. Additionally, jailers posted ads ...

'Freedom on the Move' project takes more realistic look at U.S. history

These ads, such as the one placed by Jefferson, are typically known as “runaway ads,” which the project treats as “important primary sources ...

Cornell Creates a Database of Fugitive Slave Ads, Telling the Story ...

Cornell University's Freedom on the Move project, which intends to “compile all North American slave runaway ads and make them available for statistical, ...

Podcast episode explores resistance to slavery via newspaper ads

... Move, a collaborative, crowdsourced public history project created by scholars, students, and citizen historians. Its database of “runaway ads ...

Freedom on the Move in Louisiana - 64 Parishes

Runaway ads digitized by Louisiana State University will be added to the database, increasing the number of Louisiana-based ads accessible ...

Poster offering a $500 reward for a runaway slave, USA, 1820-1860

With the advent of newspapers in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives. Additionally, jailers ...

Slavery: Primary Sources - Guides at University of Detroit Mercy

' Freedom on the Move: a database of fugitives from North American slavery ... runaway ads and make them available for statistical, geographical ...

Inter-Department Project Collects Thousands of Slave Resistance ...

... runaway ads” that were once widely published in newspapers by ... As the database continues to grow, “Freedom on the Move” aims to ...

NEH Award HAA-256102-17, Cornell University

With the advent of newspapers in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives. Additionally, jailers posted ads ...

Paths to Freedom: - ArcGIS StoryMaps

The Freedom on the Move database collects "runaway ads ... It takes advantage of crowdsourced transcriptions, as well as the production of searchable metadata.

Historian Receives Grant for Digital Slavery Project

... Freedom on the Move: A Database of Fugitive from North American Slavery. ... “Runaway ads thus not only can tell us a lot about the institution ...

A Database of Fugitives from North American Slavery

Freedom on the Move: A Database of Fugitives from North American Slavery ... runaway ads and make them available for multiple forms of analysis.

Cornell builds database of historical runaway slave ads - Genealogy ...

... runaway ads. Runaway slave ads were a common ... Crowdsourcing will enable the public to contribute to the database. ... database.” Visit the Freedom on the Move ...

External Databases | Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal

Freedom on the Move. This project is designing and beginning data collection for a database that will compile all North American slave runaway ads ...